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The success that the tv serie Gomorra had, was incredible. It’s been distributed in more than 60 countries all over the world. Some people say that Italy (and Naples in particular) “sells guns”, but the reality is that Italy and Naples are still strongly able to produce such masterpieces. Now a days, the tendency is to throw garbage on these places, just to cover ours, but the truth is that this trash is all over the world. Naples is not just pizza and camorra, it is also warmth, generosity and unity. This year, Naples has also been Paolo Sorrentino that lifted the Oscar making everybody more proud to be Italian in this era where it’s hard to even feel you are a person.

This morning, the two main characters of the serie, Marco D’Amore and Salvatore Esposito, talked to me and other journalists confirming that this generosity and politeness can actually change the world that they described in Gomorra

“Look, I walked side by side with my character that is the clear expression of this negative places and actions. When I started, I tried to set myself free from prejudices. I can assure you that in this black shadow of violence and atrocity, I have been able to see such sparks of love, umanity, friendship that I wondered will I be able to live with such strength certain feelings? And this comes from something that is so negative” Marco says

“Project a side, the thing that really surprised me was the thankfulness, the caring, the love that we found in the places where we were shooting, considered the ‘Ghetto’, see, the good things don’t break the news. We spent nine months in this territories while shooting, under the burning sun of south Italy and all we found was solidarity, great love, care, those people opened their doors for us, gave us water, but see, nobody talks about that, well I do, because as a person, it touched me and made me realize that not everything is bad” Esposito adds

The producer Riccardo Tozzi, in an interview declared “We probably made the name of Gomorra dirty” (since some scenes where filmed in the actual places that the camorra negatively marked) what do you think about this critics that are actually bringing a lot of popularity to the serie?

“Well, I’m used to get my own idea of things, so what I’m going to say is that I’m an actor, it’s not my job to talk about this” D’Amore replies

One of the jury members of the festival, an 11 years old, quoted Che Guevara saying: “An ignorant people is easy to rule” what do you think?

“I totally agree. It’s hard to answer this question. I made a lot of sacrifices in my life to study and get to this point, if mine could be an example that would be my answer”Marco says

Do you think that the fame that Gomorra reached, it’s given especially from this criticism?

“No, I think that the success comes from the quality on the product. For the fist time, an italian serie has been sold in 62 countries and the most important newspapers compared it to the best american tv shows. It’s something to be proud of, the cast, the troupe, the production are all just great and this success just proves it” Salvatore comments

“It’s absurd to think that Gomorra it’s a place on the map, Gomorra it’s a place in our consciences, it’s in Italy, in America, in Mexico, in France, it’s everywhere and the proof on what I just said is that it has been sold all over the world because it talks about the world” Marco adds

What are your future projects?

“I am exploring the options” Esposito answers

“I made a movie with Luca Zingaretti and some other things and also I decided to produce a movie written with my company ‘La piccola società’. It’s a movie about the tragedy of ETERNIT. Everybody said ‘You are not going to make it’, I just want to say ‘See you next year at the Giffoni Film Festival where there will be the premiere, because I’m going to make it” D’Amore concludes